Sentences with phrase «reducing environmental side»

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A number of suits challenge the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thenvironmental groups from the other side.

Opportunity has a dark side, however: in the past, the increased demand tempted growers to clear natural forests and replace them with bamboo — a practice Ruiz - Pérez calls «completely crazy» from an environmental standpoint, because it erodes biodiversity and reduces the carbon capture benefits.

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollution.

Siding with four teenage plaintiffs and the environmental groups that backed them, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ruled that the state has failed to fulfill its legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

After a Massachusetts court sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [55] Marc Morano — executive director of CFACT's ClimateDepot project — claimed today's youth are being indoctrinated by the environmental movement: [56]

After a Massachusetts court sided with a group of teenagers by ruling the state had failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, [57] Marc Morano claimed that today's youth are being indoctrinated by the environmental movement: [58]

The money saved on diapers and reduced environmental impact are side benefits.

Most mainstream U.S. environmental groups, trying to build support for climate legislation, have backed off the scare tactics and focused instead on side benefits such as green jobs and reduced dependence on foreign oil.